todd: 57 years old now. by the way, i m still shorter than you. that didn t change. carley: i thought about putting flats on you as a gift because really he is taller than me. todd: yes, legally. carley: exactly. todd: with that you can hold on. carley: put my shoe back on. i hated doing the remote thing, there is delay, not as fun. i did like wearing sneakers for the two hours, this is first time i m in heels for a while. todd: this is first time i m in suit pants. i asked sarah if i could wear shorts, she said no. you are watching fox t.v., i m todd piro. carley: that would have been a look, gym shorts for fox and friends first. i m carley shimkus. thank you for joining us. a lot of news and we begin with a fox news exclusive on the border crisis. our cameras capturing ice buses dumping illegal migrants in brownsville, texas in violation of trump era title 42. todd: brooke songman joins us. brooke, not a good look. brooke: federally contracted buses
who i am as a person. i love beyonce. that s not a working telephone, is it? empty shelves are all you ll find here at tower records. it s now out of business . three, two, one! this is a very special moment. the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! that s great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes lenny bruce is not afraid i ll always remember new year s eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by r.e.m. it s the end of the world as we know it it s the end of the world as we know it i feel fine it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. happy new year! so we wake up, it s 2000, we re all alive, and we re still in the middle of teen pop mania. don t want to hear you ain t nothing but a heartache boy bands were selling so many albums. every little t
help as you always do you can also contribute to any of these organizations on screen. thank you for the privilege of your time. that wraps up my hour. a good wednesday morning to you. craig melvin here. right now we re juggling a number of live events this hour. and the word driving all of them, urgency. first breaking news in the last 30 minutes or so, former police officer derek chauvin pleading guilty to federal civil rights charges related to the murder of george floyd. you will recall chauvin previously pled not guilty. he s changed his employee. more on that in moments. also any second on capitol hill, speaker pelosi will be holding her weekly briefing. there s lots to talk about here. fighting to find mark meadows in contempt of congress. also congress will prevent a debt limit disaster for now. they passed a $2.5 trillion extension. and also in just the last few moments, we ve learned that the president s build back better plan being punted until next year. w
correspondingjim corresponding jim reed correspondingjim reed is here. what are we expecting from the prime minister? what should we read into it? , ., ., , it? this covid alert level is different it? this covid alert level is different. there it? this covid alert level is different. there are - it? this covid alert level is different. there are five i it? this covid alert level is - different. there are five levels and it is decided by the chief medical officers of the four nations of the uk and within the last hour they have increased it from level three to level four. that would signal that rather than the virus circulating generally in the population we have now moved to a situation where transmission is at a high or is rising exponentially. as for what that means, we are not at level five and that is the top level and that would suggest the nhs has come under unsustainable pressure and could be overwhelmed. we are not at that point and that is when you would imagine
it gets underway. right now at the white house, president biden is about to make a high-stakes video call with russian president vladimir putin amid an alarming buildup of russian troops along the border with ukraine. with me now to start off our coverage this hour, nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake, and nbc news white house correspondent, mike memoli. good morning, garrett. let me start with you. what can we expect to hear prosecute capitol police inspector general today? jose, the inspector general is going to say that the capitol police department, which secures this entire complex, has come a long way from january 6th, that they still have a long way to go. he will say that of the 200 or so security recommendations put in place for the department, only about 60 have been fully funded and taken care of, and that the department still has work to do to improve its training, to improve the morale among the officers, and improve the overall culture. h